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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.

Alan Bennett

However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Church Incapable Journey Return Sacrament Weather
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Add Bottom Entitlement Happiness Note One Position Recipe Sense Star
I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Blue Eye Live Perhaps Remind Think
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Case Convince Involve Longer Medicine More Practice Trouser Two Type
I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Anyway Found More Take Talk Time Well Write
The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Anybody Chosen Else Night Obscure Somebody Soon Thought Trouble
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Assume Book Classic Definition Everyone Often Read Think
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Franklin Garland Memories Shackles
I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Besides Director Down Hierarchy More Piss Place Quite Really Risky Think Took Writer
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Explain Great Much Poet Significance Success Try
Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Cenotaph Commentary Concern Last Post Realise Something Stuff
Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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